The draft lottery, NBA, is normally an event held annually by the NBA where by teams that had initially missed the playoffs of the previous season or those teams with draft rights of another team that is said to have missed the playoffs in their previous season, take part in a lottery process so as to determine the order in the NBA draft. Several questions had been raised over the past years on whether picking the first pick in the draft lottery upped a team’s odds at the title, it really did. In most cases for a salary capped sport, building a title fight competitor is the key to taking full advantage of surplus value by underpaying your team as much as possible. NBA is also dominated by a handful of big name players who get paid the same amount as regular star players. Therefore, the easiest way to get substantial surplus value in the NBA is to get one or more of those players on your team by any means available. Not only is the …show more content…
According to the proposal by the team officials, the new system would allow each of the thirty teams to pick in a specific first round slot basis which could be only once in every thirty years. This could mean that, the order in which the teams played would be prearranged and each of the teams would be aware of what their draft position for every season would be for the following thirty years until the next picking would be conducted once again. The new system is projecting at doing away with protected picks and also imposing a major effect on trade consultation. The whole proposal of eliminating the lottery is aimed at eliminating tanking which is deemed as a negative light around the NBA. This issue of tanking has been addressed by a number of economists and other professionals and it has been found out that it is just a phenomenon that arises and fades away but depending on the format and details of the draft